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A SMALL WAIL OF A SMALL FRY. ' Den. Mlles's statement that the Ttoot army bill la -centralisation of the worst type' will cre to make the Admlhtsl tratlon all the moie anxious to secure Its enactment Into law. ('nitrnllsatlon Is essentially rtepublUan," soys Mr. Bryan's Commoner. It Is pretty hard to Imagine that a man an be serious In that kind ot talk How would Mi Hrjan oruanlae and menage an army' On tho town meeting plan' Is It not a fact that the onlv possible organisation organisa-tion for an aim Is through "centmllsa-tion," "centmllsa-tion," having definite and absolute "on-trol "on-trol nnd uuthorlty lodged In the respon sible officer of each lommand? Kvery-body Kvery-body knows this, and how can Mr. Bryan hope to reap anything but contempt con-tempt foi himself In putting foith such senseless gabble as there Is In that little lit-tle quotation? A for ifcntralltatlon being rsmntlally Republican, It Is sufficient suffi-cient to any that the Republican parly tandn for It emphatically In the army, and so does everybody of any knowledge knowl-edge In military affairs The Republican Repub-lican party also stands for such cn-trallaallon cn-trallaallon In civil affairs as Ima enabled en-abled It to preseive the fnlon Bnd gle to the world a Nation, supreme In free Institutions, powerful In nil good works, beneficent In good deeds, the fulfillment of the dreams of benevolent men fnm the foundation of the world, nnd li r einmplo to the struggling peoples peo-ples or the earth ns the realization of their highest hopes ln this mighty work tho Republican party has set a mark and stood boldly up to It, thai wilt crown It ns the grandest political forco that has ever been launched by man.